53 Best Shopping in Hudson Valley, New York

For the best prices in town, check out the Millbrook Antique Center, an emporium with two floors of antiques and collectibles from over 25 dealers. There's a garden room where you can find marble statues, bird baths, and water fountains during the summer.

With over 25 dealers, the Millbrook Antiques Mall is the largest fine-antiques center for miles around. Almost every antiques category is represented: country furniture, botanical prints, porcelain, brass fireplace tools. The dealer collections create a series of nicely edited and presented boutique spaces.

Vintage garden pots, carousel horses, and antique board games are among a few of the finds you can browse through at Milne's At Home Antiques. The owner is a second-generation antiques dealer and is happy to help you search through the store for the perfect addition to your home.

Located in the heart of stroll-friendly Piermont, Ned Kelly & Company offers unusual home and garden furnishings, along with fresh flowers. Shoppers will find a mix of new and antique pieces that include luxurious throw blankets, china patterns, upholstered furniture, and deftly assembled fresh bouquets.

The quirky handcrafted and costume jewelry and flirtatious frocks sold here capture the allure of vintage apparel with none of the mustiness of the real thing. Michael Start, James Perse, and other casual lines are also available here.

This well-stocked, all-purpose bookstore one block north of the Beekman Arms offers a good selection of novels, books about area places and local history, and works by local writers.

A contemporary jewelry store owned by couple Stefan Freidemann and Laura Lapachin (who met in a metalsmithing class), Ornamentum sells fanciful jewelry made by fine artists whose works appear in museums around the world.

After a succeessful career working for Whole Foods Market, Otto Leuschel decided to open an old-style grocery store in the tiny center of Germantown, 10 miles south of Hudson. Despite its small size, Otto's has an amazing selection of products ranging from grocery staples like Tide and Oreos to more exotic fare like British condiments and European jams. There's an excellent selection of international and local cheeses as well as other great Hudson Valley products. There's also a full deli in the back and two café tables in the front. Leuschel recently opened a variety store across the street that sells everything from cosmetics to hammers.

This wonderfully curated emporium sells elegant stationery, wedding invitations, and greeting cards, as well as a quirky and stylish selection of books, toys, home decor, candles, scarves, and travel accessories.

A Nyack landmark since opening in 1945, this charming little store is full of hard-to-find titles, including many by local authors detailing the history of the Hudson Valley. It's an especially great destination for area hiking maps.

This corner shop offers a fabulous array of eclectic goods for the home, self, and garden. You'll find everything from children's clothes and Buddha statues to Hunt Country furniture and elegant jewelry. Punch also holds trunk shows for prestigious brands like Jo Malone fragrances, Valerie Horn jewelry, and Quadrille couture.

One of the best-known and -loved antiques fairs in the country, the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair showcases more than 200 dealers in four large exhibition halls. The fair, held twice a year (in May and October), interests both casual and serious collectors.

Here you will find an impeccable assortment of candles, coffee-table books, Italian and Belgian linens, and other refined trifles. They also offer men's shaving accoutrements and correspondence items including marbleized paper and special occasion cards.

Multiple dealers of delightful antiques and other old stuff, much of it reflecting the neighborhood's nautical past, occupy Skillypot Antiques.

"Life is chaotic, you might as well look good" is the motto of Diana Brind, owner and creative force behind the SugarPlum Boutique, an accessories shop. Her eye for the delicate is evident in the array of barrettes, scarves, hats, and silver jewelry. She also offers her own brand of mineral make-up called Chaos Cosmetics.

This eclectic indie bookstore housed in an 1889 firehouse has a long wooden bar serving craft ales and lagers on tap. In addition to the large selection of books by local authors, it also sells stationery, gifts, and art supplies for both children and professional artists.

The archetype of Hudson antiques shops is Theron Ware: a single storefront populated with rare and pricey treasures. It specializes in European and American antiques and artworks from the 17th through the 19th century, but also has tribal and Native American art, antiquities, and contemporary art.

Three stores in one, Valley Variety sells beautiful and useful things for the kitchen and garden, as well as for entertaining and travel. There's also a rotating art gallery and a display kitchen where owner Chuck Rosenthal plans to host chef demos and dinners.

This corner store does double-duty selling fine loose teas from around the world and exquisite chocolate bars and baked goods. The Chocolate Bar is a café serving a range of hot chocolates including the signature Hudson (a rich ganache of dark chocolate blended with milk, whipped cream, and chocolate shavings) as well as a selection of teas, coffees, and smoothies. Then there's a tea bar in the back where you can sample two of the shop's many excellent teas before buying.

This farm market sells local produce, cheeses, baked goods, jams and preserves, maple syrup, garden supplies, fresh-pressed apple cider, and pumpkins you can pick yourself.

This unassuming pedestrian mall includes antiques stores, a donut shop, a cheese shop, crafts and art galleries, cafés, clothing boutiques, and custom-furniture and other specialty shops.

Ever-changing window displays set the stage for the side-by-side Winter Sun/Summer Moon. Luscious fabrics, bright colors, and rich textures give the shops the feel of a sophisticated bazaar. Comfortable, easy-to-wear, and elegant clothes, jewelry, and accessories are the signature of Winter Sun.

Art-directed spiral-shape potted trees flank the double doors of the beautifully restored 1850s church that houses Yellow Church Antiques. The fine (usually very expensive) antiques include English, American, and Continental furniture, and paintings and carpets from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.